>you will never be a professor at a top 10 institution
Why is it that every successful academic learned fucking group theory and shit before they entered high school? How the FUCK do you compete with that?! I'm in my second year of college and still finishing up Calc 3! It's not fair!!!
Your fault for choosing a field that is filled with literal autists.
>>8448615
>implying group theory is harder than calc 3
kek
>>8448615
People that have those coveted positions wanted them far earlier than since you started browsing /sci/ anon.
Hey /sci/, just curious what some of you think humans will look like by the year 7993. Would we even be human anymore?
I wonder as I am writing a book and curious to see what people might think of what they imagine humans to look like in around 6500 years.
I think that in as little as 30 years a lot of people will stop thinking of themselves as human. After uploading consciousness there is no reason to remain in human form. In 7993 I find it unlikely that any humans would exist at all, but human minds certainly still would exist.
>>8448570
sup OP, why don't you hang yourself+?
>>8448595
kek
Have you ever had moments in your thoughts where you weren't sure if you were a genius or retarded?
no, i know i'm retarded
Constantly. Mostly, am I on the way to prove a great idea or am I a crank? The next question, assuming I'm on a trail, is whether I'm just too dumb to know how to proceed or am I literally stuck with my chosen approach.
I wonder this all the time. Want to start studying mech engineering next year, always thought throughout my life i was a somewhat intelligent dude. But seriously I think I'm either a smart guy or a dumb fuck...I dont think its possible I'm in between. If I can't handle engineering i'm switching to computer science or accounting.
>he fell for the cal 2 is hard meme
it's not hard at all
fucking normie brainlets
t. someone who is failing calc 2
>>8448558
>someone who is failing calc 2
You mean doing calc 2 just so that he can try to get laid with other men in the campus but never attended a single lesson?
You can't fail something that simple holy shit.
>>8448506
This. Anyone who thinks cal 2 is hard will cry at seeing cal 3
Can there, or does there, exist a perfectly straight line, that we know of, or is a straight line a theoretical concept only?
Yeah every hydrogen molecule is a straight line
>>8448099
Can there, or does there, exist the perfect number 1, that we know of, or is number 1 a theoretical concept only?
What a stupid thread
"Instead of being behaviourally close to chimpansees, humans are instead behaviourally close to bonobos."
How does this affect human society, and most importantly human conflict resolution?
>>8448015
It means that our societies, and most importantly, our means of resolving conflict more closely resemble those of bonobos than those of chimpanzees.
Primatologist Frans de Waal states bonobos are capable of altruism, compassion, empathy, kindness, patience, and sensitivity,[3] and described "bonobo society" as a "gynecocracy".
>Feminism
Most studies indicate that females have a higher social status in bonobo society.[4] Aggressive encounters between males and females are rare, and males are tolerant of infants and juveniles. A male derives his status from the status of his mother.[39] The mother–son bond often stays strong and continues throughout life. While social hierarchies do exist, rank plays a less prominent role than in other primate societies.
>Bonobos are bisexual
Bonobo males occasionally engage in various forms of male–male genital behavior,[44][50] which is the non-human analogue of frotting, engaged in by human males. In one form, two bonobo males hang from a tree limb face-to-face while penis fencing.This also may occur when two males rub their penises together while in face-to-face position. Another form of genital interaction (rump rubbing) occurs to express reconciliation between two males after a conflict, when they stand back-to-back and rub their scrotal sacs together. Takayoshi Kano observed similar practices among bonobos in the natural habitat.
More often than the males, female bonobos engage in mutual genital behavior, possibly to bond socially with each other, thus forming a female nucleus of bonobo society. The bonding among females enables them to dominate most of the males.
>Bonobos are hippies
In fact, the Japanese scientists who have spent the most time working with wild bonobos describe the species as extraordinarily peaceful, and de Waal has documented how bonobos may often resolve conflicts with sexual contact (hence the "make love, not war" characterization for the species).
>bonobos on immigration
Between groups, social mingling may occur, in which members of different communities have sex and groom each other, behavior which is unheard of among common chimpanzees.
>>8448450
>mfw we are just smart bonobos
Is there a name for the effect of how everyone assumes themselves to have high intelligence? I've come across students who can barely pass calc 1, yet they still consider themselves to be intelligent. Why does this occur?
Dunning-krueger effect
>>8447994
Arrogance.
I want to cum in their brother's perfect boypuss
A monster has an item on its drop table with a drop rate of 1/32,768. A stronger version of the monster gets 3 rolls on the original's drop table.
What are the chances of all 3 rolls being the rare item with a normal drop rate of 1/32,768?
>>8447928
>What are the chances of three independent events occurring?
Are you retarded?
>>8447937
dont fall for this meme
its 1/((whatever)^3)
i just listened to a guy that said Ancient Egypt had scientific theories more advanced than Einstein's General Relativity
is he right
Did he explain why?
I think so.
He's talking about shit he has no idea about.
>>8447986
Yeah. That is the common misconception - people tend to say Egyptians did this, done that, knew this and that. Thing is it was no Egyptians, but Ayyys who told/taught them how to use advanced technology/science.
Suppose the atmosphere and all of space had the same air density as ground level on Earth (1 atm?)
Could you fly an airplane to the Moon?
>>8447749
no, because the earth and the moon would quickly ignite against all that air because of friction travelling at several thousand km per second. also all that new air would generate weird gravitys, and also it could be ignited by the sun
>>8447749
Sure, but you'd have to fly in some kind of spiral since the plane would always be trying to go upwards wrt. the plane.
>>8447749
Yes, if there was air in space you could fly in it.
So anyway, I understand and can visualize how composition of shift and rotation would always have a fixed point, but how can it remain fixed, when you take a homothety of < 1 after that, unless of course you specifically choose it's center to be that fixed point?
I've seen some proof on stackexchange, but it included linear algebra which is obviously unacceptable, since it's a FUCKING ANALYSIS book - intro chapter of the first volume in fact - and you're clearly supposed to be able to solve it without linear algebra.
I got at least another question.
It's not going to have the same center, obviously
How do you prove Newton's binomial formula by induction without the use of combinatorics or pascal's triangle or any other such shit? You're cleary supposed to be able to do so.
>>8447711
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/577240/fixed-point-in-plane-transformation
Here's the exercise.
As you can see it says
> Check that ANY composition of shift, rotation and homothety of a plane has a fixed point if k of homothety is less than 1
What's the /sci/ consensus? Anyone have an opinion on the studies and methodology attempting to quantify the quality of parenting of gay couples?
>>8447650
Not good for the development of the child. A child needs to feel the polarity between mother and father in order develope properly. Furthermore, gays naturally cannot procreate so they should face not ever getting to raise children. Additionally only one of the pair can be a biological parent (at most) which causes the child to not be surrounded by his two genetic predecessors, which is reprehensible.
>>8447650
It dosent fucking matter, I think people make way too much of a deal about it. The kid dosent have to grow up in an orphanage and they couple is happy to take care of them. I dont think being gay is a choice, its just something that someone is. Besides most kids who are raised by gay parents turn out just as fucked up as the rest of us. Its just propoganda.
>>8447650
It probably doesn't matter and if it does, it's probably not possible to quantify. Many million children came out just fine without a father, so who gives a shit. There are also many traditional parents that fuck up their children pretty fucking bad. Humans adapt, in particular children. What it really needs is just food, shelter, limits, love, stuff like that. There is no magic happening just because one of the parents has a penis and the other not.
/brainlet/ here, how do I git gud at self-learning from textbooks? I want to be able to get information from texts(mainly mathematical, programming and language) but i've never been a good book learner
When i write notes i get into a bad habit of almost copying word for word what the text says and the next day i barely remember what i wrote.
When you do have a set of notes, how often do you refer back to them?
what are some essential note taking tips
Study the basis.
Guess what, most brainlets don't know how to read a math book too.
And most will ignore this advice because they want a magic method or magic pill so they become Gauss in less than a week.
Go master arithmetics and learn the notation from the basis. Then you can start to relearn algebra.
If you don't read novels for fun already, don't expect to pick up reading textbooks and actually have fun doing it. You realize how silly it sounds once you say it out loud.
>>8447529
You first need to have a consistent study schedule.
Do at least one hour every day.
Write things down while you read the book and rearrange them creating your own style.
It comes naturally with time.
If you want to learn mathematics pick a book like:
Halmos. Naive Set Theory.
Study it then rehearse it a lot of times.
Brainlets think memorizing is bad.
That's because they have shit memories.
Move to a different book like:
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy.
You need to go through a lot of books about the same subject to get good.
What went wrong with science in 2016?
Literally zero good inventions.
I feel like the last good scientific invention was tablets and that was a few years ago now.
Did funding get cut? whats going on?
>>8447444
>scientific invention
>tablets
>>8447444
Get into space technology. We're having a great time.
>Also, as with all things, consumers and consumer demand ruins everything
VR became huge this year
Retarded who knows nothing here.
I have a fear with black holes, I have no idea why I'm afraid.
I ask: Is it okay fear that one of them come to us? Seriously, I'm afraid.
There are much bigger threats to worry about than a black hole coming near us
>>8447447
I mean, there's no need to worry about them?
There probability? is zero?
>>8447462
Dont worry, no matter what happens you will safely end up in the super massive black hole in the centre of our galaxy after you have died.
And after that you will be sucked into the singularity which is an even bigger black hole.
So i would worry more about that than some random little one flying through space hitting earth.